BIRN Albania Holds MOJO Training for Students and Young Journalists

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The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network in Albania held a two-day training on October 4 and October 5 in Tirana for journalism students and young journalists, on mobile journalism, MOJO.

Seventeen young journalists and journalism students participated in the training delivered by Norbert Sinkovic, an experienced trainer on multimedia and mobile journalism, and facilitated by BIRN staff.

The training provided the young journalists and journalism students with the fundamental techniques of reporting and storytelling on mobile, web and other online platforms.

The trainees learned on how to create quality journalism content, using best practices for producing high-quality photos and video, audio, and editing for social media, web, and other platforms – using mobile devices.

The intensive workshop-style training was designed to provide young journalists with the key skills of journalism using mobile phones.

This activity was part of the project “Using Big Data and Multimedia to Boost Quality and Independent Journalism in Albania” co-funded by the European Union and Swedish government and implemented by BIRN.